Combination toy



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' G. H. IRELAND.

COMBINATION TOY. No. 244,133. Patented Ju 1y 1Z-,1881.

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G. H. IRELAND.

GOMBINATION TOY.

No. 244,133. Patented July 12,1881.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE H. IRELAND, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

COMBINATION TOY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 244,133, dated July 12, 1881. Application filed May 19, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. IRELAND, a citizen of the United States, residing at Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Combination Toys, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the construction and the combination of a series of toy vehicles representing boats or carriages, the object being to provide a combined toy movableupon wheels, and consisting of three principal parts, one of which, together with the detachable parts of all three of the principal ones, can be packed within the other two parts, which are of corresponding dimensions, and form together a box or receptacle therefor, to provide for economy and safety in transportation.

I11 the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 represents threevehicles, consistin g of a tow-boat and two barges, constructed according to my invention, and arranged with the tow-boat between the two barges. Fig. 2 is a side elevation, showing the towboat and the two barges in a line, the barges being in the rear of the tow-boat, in the usual order. Fig. 3 shows the barges having their wheels removed and laying one upon the other to form a box, and having a portion of their sides broken away to show the tow-boat and the wheels of the barges packed in said box. Fig.4 shows a pair of wheels and their axle removed from a barge.

In the drawings, a is the tow-boat, c c are the barges, and 6 indicates the barge-axles.

The tow-boat a consists of aplatt'orm,2,hav-

ing wheels secured thereto, as shown, upon which it may be drawn, and having mounted upon said platform the upright portions 3 and 4, which represent the pilot-house and cabin, and the cylindrical piece 5, which represents the smoke-pipe. This latter piece only is removable from the said parts constituting said boat, the part 4 being bored to receive it, as shown in Fig. 3.

The barges c c are constructed of corresponding dimensions, so that when one is turned over upon the other they will constitute together a box, as shown in Fig.3, and their bottoms are pierced to receive the ends of the pins 6 6 in the truck or axle c, by which the latter are temporarily secured to the bottoms of the barges.

Said tow-boat and barges may serve to amuse children as toys by being arranged together in several ways, two of which are shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

The matter of packing this class of toys so that they shall occupy the smallest possible space is one of great importance to both the manufacturer and the buyer, so that the cost of transportation may not be burdensome, and this toy is made with special reference to that object. Thus it will be seen that by removing the smoke-pipe 5 from the boata thelatter may be laid upon its side in one of the barges and said pipe by its side, and then the trucks or axles care removed from the barges and placed with said boat in one of them, as shown in Fig. 3, and, lastly, the empty barge is laid over the first one, thereby inolosing all detachable parts and forming a package of small dimensions, and one which amply protects its contents from injury in transportation.

It is obvious that a toy vehicle to represent a locomotive may be employed in place of the boat a and the barges c c be replaced by shallow cars, in which thelocomotive and the wheels of the cars may be packed in a manner similar to that herein shown or other descriptions of vehicles may be so combined without departing from the chief feature of my invention, which consists in constructing two toy vehicles of corresponding dimensions, and a third one to be employed with said two, which, with the wheels of the former, may be inclosed and packed within a box formed of the said two vehicles.

What I claim as my invention is- The within-described combination toy, consisting of threevehicles, a c 0, adapted to move on wheels, two of which together form a receptacle within which may be packed the third vehicle, together with the detachable parts of said two, substantially as set forth.

GEORGE H. IRELAND.

Witnesses H. A. OHAPIN, J. D. GARFIELD. 

